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infotoday.com | Anthony Aycock |Brandi Scardilli
Other ITI Websites American Library Directory Boardwalk Empire Database Trends and Applications DestinationCRM Faulkner Information Services Fulltext Sources Online InfoToday Europe KMWorld Literary Market Place Plexus Publishing Smart Customer Service Speech Technology Streaming Media Streaming Media Europe Streaming Media Producer Unisphere Research Vendors: For commercial reprints in print or digital form, contact LaShawn Fugate ([email protected]) Magazines > Information Today >...
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infotoday.com | Anthony Aycock |Brandi Scardilli
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Anthony Aycock
Everyone, it seems, has a Harlan Ellison anecdote. Words that have been used to describe Ellison include angry. Genius. Jerk. Legend. “Sci-fi’s most controversial figure” (Wired). “A giant squeezed into a 5’5” frame” (Steven Barnes). “A parasite who can kiss my ass” (James Cameron). Ellison called himself “troublemaker, malcontent, desperado . . . a combination of Zorro and Jiminy Cricket.” The advice “never meet your heroes” feels tailor-made for Ellison. Yet he also had his good points.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
medium.com | Anthony Aycock
On the necessity of improving access to justiceAnthony Aycock·FollowPublished inEveryLibrary·6 min read·--Photo by Kaboompics.com on PexelsIn one episode of the classic TV series Bewitched, Samantha’s Aunt Clara accidentally conjures Benjamin Franklin, who, in classic sitcom madcap style, gets arrested for stealing an antique fire truck. Despairing over the odds of getting an attorney, Darrin asks whether Franklin could defend himself. “No,” says Franklin, “that might be unwise, sir.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
newsbreaks.infotoday.com | Anthony Aycock
In politics, there is a thing called the October surprise. Coined in reference to Jimmy Carter’s hoped-for success in freeing the Iranian hostages in 1980, which might have helped him beat Ronald Reagan that year, the term has ever since connoted a last-minute headline that upends a presidential election. For readers of NewsBreaks, “October surprise” might mean something different: another article from me about Halloween information sources.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
infotoday.com | Anthony Aycock |Brandi Scardilli
Vendors: For commercial reprints in print or digital form, contact LaShawn Fugate ([email protected]) Magazines > Information Today > October 2024 Back Index Forward FEATURE A Librarian’s Guide to ADHD Resources by Anthony Aycock Adult ADHD: Statistics and Facts webmd.com/add-adhd/adult-adhd-facts-statistics ADHD Awareness Month adhdawarenessmonth.org CHADD (Children and Adults With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) chadd.org Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder...
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
pisancantos43.medium.com | Anthony Aycock
Celebrate ADHD Awareness Month in OctoberAnthony Aycock·Follow5 min read·--Photo by Matthew Ball on Unsplash“I wish monkeys could Skype. Maybe someday.”“Do you know if the hotel is pager-friendly?”“Tigers love pepper. They hate cinnamon.”“Four of us wolves, running around the desert together, in Las Vegas, looking for strippers and cocaine.”“I can’t believe my daddy is dead. I can think of so many people I would rather have died first, like my mother.”What do these sentences have in common?
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
pisancantos43.medium.com | Anthony Aycock
The Problem with Describing “Final Girls” as Virgins“There are certain rules that one must abide by in order to successfully survive a horror movie! For instance, Number 1: You can never have sex. Sex equals death, OK?”We know the above lines by Randy, geek hero of Wes Craven’s Scream, as well as we know “I’ll be back”; “You talking to me?”; and “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”The idea that only virgins survive slasher films seems as undying as the slashers themselves.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
medium.com | Anthony Aycock
It’s one of the great storylines in one of the all-time great movies: the building of the Brooks Hatlen Memorial Library in Shawshank Prison. Shawshank, of course, is the penitentiary featured in The Shawshank Redemption, director Frank Darabont’s Golden Globe-winning film that starred Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins as inmates who become best friends. Robbins plays Andy Dufresne, an accountant convicted — wrongly — of killing his wife and her lover.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
newsbreaks.infotoday.com | Anthony Aycock
There is a story my mother has told a million times. It was the late 1970s. I was young, probably still a toddler. She and my father had settled onto the sofa to watch Jaws on TV, steaming mugs of cocoa in their hands. The movie progressed in its slow-burn way, raising the tension. It got to that scene where Roy Scheider as Martin Brody was slopping chum over the side of Quint’s boat. As he looked away from his work, the shark burst out of the water, startling my father.
